Bed Bath & Beyond® Welcome Rewards™ College Sweepstakes

Official Rules

 

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

 

1. Eligibility: The Bed Bath & Beyond® Welcome Rewards™ College Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years of age or older and are enrolled at an accredited 4-year college/university located in the fifty (50) United States or District of Columbia (undergraduate or graduate) with a graduation date between 2022 and 2027 at the time of entry. Employees and their immediate families (parent, child, spouse, or siblings, and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside), and those living in their same households, whether or not related, of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (“Sponsor”), Merkle Inc. (“Administrator”) and their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, retail locations, representatives, consultants, contractors, legal counsel, advertising, public relations, promotional fulfillment, digital, marketing, promotion and social media agencies, website providers, webmasters along with the officers, directors, owners, members, agents and employees of each of them, and companies involved in the implementation and execution of the Sweepstakes (and their respective parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries) (collectively the “Sweepstakes Entities”) are not eligible to enter or win. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited.  Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules. Sponsor’s and Administrator’s decisions are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Winning the prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.

 

2. Sponsor: Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., 650 Liberty Avenue, Union, NJ 07083-8107. Administrator: Merkle Inc., 3000 Town Center, Suite 2100, Southfield, MI  48075.

 

3. Timing: The Sweepstakes begins on August 19, 2022, at approximately 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET"), ends on September 8, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the "Promotion Period") and consists of three (3) Sweepstakes Drawings as outlined below. Instagram's servers are the official time-keeping devices for the Sweepstakes.

 

Drawings

Start Date

Approx. 9:00 a.m. ET

End Date

11:59 p.m. ET

Approximate

Drawing Date

Week 1

August 19, 2022

August 25, 2022

August 29, 2022

Week 2

August 19, 2022

September 1, 2022

September 6, 2022

Week 3

August 19, 2022

September 8, 2022

September 12, 2022

 

 

4. How to Enter:

 

(a)   Sign up for Bed Bath & Beyond® Programs:  To enter, you must have BOTH a free College Savings Pass and a free Bed Bath & Beyond ® Welcome Rewards account set up in your own name.

 

College Savings Pass: To secure a free College Savings Pass (if you do not have one already), visit https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/static/collegesavingspass and follow the directions to include your name (as listed on your college enrollment documents). Do not use a nickname. You will be asked to provide an email address and phone number at the time of Savings Pass registration. Verification of enrollment status required.

 

Welcome Rewards Account: Your Welcome Rewards account must be in your own name and be set up before you enter the Sweepstakes. You will be offered the opportunity to finalize set up of a Welcome Rewards™ account (herein a “Rewards Account”) after you set up your College Savings Pass OR  if your College Savings Pass is linked to a parent’s Rewards Account, you must create your own Rewards Account, by visiting https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/welcomerewards and clicking the “join for free” button. You must complete the creation of a Welcome Rewards Account Password to finalize account set-up. Your Rewards Account is subject to the applicable Program Terms.

 

(b) Must Have a Public Instagram Account: To participate, you will need to have a public Instagram account. Creating an account is free but is subject to the applicable terms and conditions. If entering via a mobile device and using your wireless carrier’s network, standard data charges from your wireless carrier may apply.

 

(c) Social Post Requirements: During the Promotion Period, take the following actions:

(a) Follow @bedbathandbeyond on Instagram;

(b) Post an original video not exceeding 30 seconds in length that responds to the question “What would you do with 1 million Bed Bath & Beyond® Welcome Rewards points?.” If listing specific items in your video, please make sure to include only merchandise that is available at Bed Bath & Beyond online or in-stores;

(c) Include @bedbathandbeyond and #BBBCollegeSweepstakes in the original caption of your post;

(d) Keep your account settings public until the prizes are awarded (as described in Section 6); and

(e) You must not change your Instagram handle once you post to enter this Sweepstakes and until the prizes are awarded (as described in Section 6).

 

An Instagram video post where the hashtag and @Bedbathandbeyond are not included in the original caption (i.e., comments or edited caption) and Instagram stories, and Instagram comment posts will not be deemed eligible entries.

 

Content Restrictions for your Social Video Post:

·       Your post must be your original work;  

·       You must not include any music in your post;

·       Your post must not disparage Sponsor or any other parties;

·       You must have permission to include the names or likenesses of other individuals and to grant the rights set forth in Section 5. You should only include minors in your post if they are your children/wards. If requested, entrant must be able to provide such permissions in a form acceptable to Sponsor; 

·       Your post must not include or reference trademarked products or services that cannot be purchased from Bed Bath & Beyond, in-store or online;

·       Your post must not prominently feature material that violates or infringes another’s rights and therefore may not include logos, trademarks, or any other intellectual property other than those owned by Sponsor or appearing on the Sponsor’s web site or in stores.

However, by posting a video that contains any names or logos of colleges or universities, you represent that you have the right to use such names and logos;

·       Your post must not convey any claims of Sponsor’s products or services that would be deemed unsubstantiated or deceptive if made by Sponsor;

·       Your post must not make references to or include alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, or firearms/weapons, any activities that are or appear to be dangerous, or any political agenda;

·       Your post may not be indecent, obscene, sexually explicit, hateful, promotes bigotry, racism, hatred, or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age; and

·       Your post may not be tortious, defamatory, libelous, disparage Sponsor or any other person or party, or contain material that is unlawful in any way.

 

By posting content that conforms to all of the above requirements, you will receive one (1) Sweepstakes entry into the applicable Sweepstakes Drawing associated with the date and time of your post as well as all subsequent Drawings. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may disqualify any post that it finds unlawful, or in violation of these Official Rules.

 

Entry Limit: You may enter one (1) time during the Promotion Period. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same Instagram account. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than one (1) entry by using multiple/different Instagram accounts, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that entrant's entries, and that entrant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder of the Instagram account used to register will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses used to create the Instagram account. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being an authorized account holder. Released Parties (as defined in Section 8, below) are not responsible for lost, late, unreceived, damaged, incomplete, invalid, un-intelligible, garbled, delayed, or misdirected Submissions or failure to receive Submissions due to limitation of third-party social network platforms all of which will be void.

5. Sponsor’s Use of Social Post Content: Posting on Instagram constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display such videos in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. If requested, entrant will sign any documentation that may be required for Sponsor or its designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant is granting to use the video.

   

6. Grand Prize Drawings and Winner Confirmation Requirements: Administrator is an independent organization whose decisions as to the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes and the selection of the potential winners are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Administrator will randomly select a potential Sweepstakes winner from all eligible entries received for each Drawing, on or around the dates set forth in Section 3. Each potential winner will be notified by @bedbathandbeyond via private message on Instagram and will be directed to a secure online claim form and asked to provide his/her name, valid email address, mailing address, phone, and date of birth to confirm eligibility and for prize fulfillment purposes within three (3) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent into order to claim the prize. Next each potential winner (or parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor in his/her state of residence) will be required to sign and return a Declaration of Compliance, Liability Waiver and, where not prohibited, a Publicity Release ("Declaration") which must be received by Administrator within five (5) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, in order to claim the prize. Declaration will require proof of student status documentation.  If a potential winner of any prize cannot be contacted, fails to sign and return the Declaration or provide any other requested information/documentation within the required time period, or the prize is returned as undeliverable, the potential winner forfeits the prize. Receiving a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules. In the event that a potential winner forfeits the prize or is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor will award the applicable prize to an alternate winner by random drawing from among all remaining applicable eligible entries. Only three (3) alternate drawings will be held, after which the prize will remain un-awarded.

 

7. Prizes: THREE (3) GRAND PRIZES (1 PER DRAWING): Each winner will receive 1 million Bed Bath & Beyond® Welcome Rewards™ points. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $1,000.00. Rewards points have no value outside of the Welcome Rewards program. Rewards points cannot be transferred or redeemed for cash. Grand Prize Reward points will expire from 12 months from date of issuance in the winner’s Welcome Rewards account. Rewards Points can only be used as set forth in the Welcome Rewards Program Terms.

 

Prizes are non-transferable, and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Winners are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. Grand Prize Winner must note that the value of the accepted prize is taxable as income and the Sponsor will file an IRS Form 1099 in the name of the Winner for the value of the Prize. Odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entries received for each Drawing. Limit one (1) prize per person. Total ARV of all prizes: $3,000.00. Prizes will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after the conclusion of the Sweepstakes.

 

8. Release: By entering this Sweepstakes, entrants agree to release and hold harmless the Sweepstakes Entities, Instagram, Inc., and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, third party claims involving the right to privacy, right of publicity, or intellectual property infringement, arising out of participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.

9. Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes each winner’s consent to Sponsor’s and its agents’ use of winner’s name, prize information, likeness, Submission, photograph (including, without limitation, winner's Instagram profile photo), voice, opinions and/or hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.

10. General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Sweepstakes, if any fraud, technical failures, human error, or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Sweepstakes, or any event or cause beyond Sponsor’s control (e.g. events such as natural calamities, national emergencies, wide spread illnesses, declarations of war, acts of God, acts of terrorism) interferes with any aspect of the Sweepstakes, including but not limited to fulfillment of the prize(s), as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. In such event, Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance and may modify the prizes offered herein. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or to be acting in violation of the Official Rules of this or any other promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

 

11. Limitations of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Sweepstakes; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the processing of entries; (5) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen mail; or (6) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for any reason an entrant's entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, not received, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the Sweepstakes if it is possible. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In the event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than the stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, un-awarded, eligible prize claims.

12. Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan or the appropriate Michigan State Court located in Oakland County, Michigan; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (3) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased.  All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Michigan.

13. Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected from entrants is subject Sponsor’s Privacy Policy https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/static/PrivacyPolicy.

 

14. Winner List: For a winner list, please click HERE. The winner list will be posted after winner confirmation is complete.

 

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